The Beauty of Your Face | 
pickSet in the US, we immediately join our main character as she faces a gunman in a Islamic School of which she is the Principal.
From there we head to the very beginning. A Palestinian family arriving in the US with a young daughter.
Through our characters we see close up the various struggles that face displaced families in the West.
I liked the portrayal of how the displaced long for home and the mental health issues relating to that.
pickAfaf is the principal of an all girls Muslim school. One day, a shooter makes his way into the school undetected and everyone‘s world changes in the blink of an eye. The story is a series of tragic events after another, to help us understand the present moment in the novel. Having read A Woman in no Man prior to this, it helped me understand the dynamics of Afaf‘s immediate family a little bit better.
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pickMy favorite read of 2020! I could not put this down. I laughed and I ugly cried. It was incredible.
Another interesting kindle offer today 👍🏻
pickA Palestinian- American woman, Afaf Rahman, and her navigation of a world filled with hate and cruelty. She is the principal of a Muslim all-girls‘ school in a Chicago suburb. The story focuses on two timelines: the present where Afaf is facing a school shooter, who has been radicalized by the online alt-right, and the other is a flashback of her life. Other wider questions are identity, home, cultural assimilation, xenophobia, and loss.
#bookreport I finished three this week - Agent 355 is a historical about a female revolutionary war spy; They Called Us Enemy a graphic memoir of George Takei's childhood experiences in Japanese internment camps i the US; and The Beauty of Your Face a story of a Palestinian woman and her family's history in the US. All very good!
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I was completely engaged in this story from page 1. Sahar Mustafah writes in such a beautiful way, that's extremely readable --- if that makes sense. For a book thats not overly long, it packed such a punch. I really feel like I could have read this book forever. The content was much more than I had been expecting. I really enjoyed the way the book alternated timelines
pickIn my year of focus on books from and about the Middle East, I'm sure this won't be the last novel featuring Palestinian immigrants (it's number 2 or 3 just this year.) Afaf's parents raised her in the states and she becomes a principle at a Muslim girls school in the Midwest. ⤵️
